Australian Unveils Prototype Hoverbike

Presumptuous information technology's legit, Chris Malloy's hoverbike may be the raddest conception since those sneakers that dismount up.

First, it should be said that I'm not entirely convinced that this hoverbike isn't a hoax. I'm no aeronautics engineer and so the concept of riding around on a mate of giant fans seems possible, just on the other hand most of my concepts of reality are based on the films of the early 1990s.

It also doesn't help that Malloy is claiming some surprising capabilities for his new machine. If he is to be believed, this hoverbike can hit speeds of 170 miles per hour and reach a maximum altitude of 10,000 feet.

Finally, a lack of video footage on the hoverbike's official site has my cynical Internet geek senses tingling. Helium does offer a range of impressive photos, and based on the pixels and my having seen a number of photoshops in the past, none seem to have been adjusted — but over again, I'm no expert.

Like a sho, that said, if this machine is real, I'm improbably impressed. Particularly with how affordable the thing might be if/when it becomes available to the public. From the official site:

We are not in the production phase so far, so we cannot give you a finalized Leontyne Price structure, but Eastern Samoa a pass over, when we fanny deal out at the least 100 units a year the cost with current material prices and working class leave be $45,000AUD +/-$5000. As with all goods, economy of scale will bring the terms down. At 1000 units a year the cost will live twin to a performance motorbike!

As the site points out, here in the America the hoverbike would follow restricted as an "ultralight," meaning that prospective riders (pilots?) would not need a cowcatcher's license.

If your brain is non rapidly filling with horrifying images of hoverbike crashes, kudos, you live in a wonderful fantasy land.

Now, assuming we can forget about the possibility that this affair is fake, and that the first matter almost everyone would do on that is give out horribly, I think we can totally see how expansive this invention is. Incoming to incredibly attractive blonde women and Paul Hogan, this may be the greatest thing Australia has ever given the world.

It sure beatniks Vegemite.

Source: Hover-Bike, via dvice

https://www.escapistmagazine.com/australian-unveils-prototype-hoverbike/

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